Web Services, Part 1 - Thin Client with RestKit

In this first chapter of a two part series, Aubrey Goodman presents a detailed look at the web service interface layer, focusing on the RestKit open source framework designed to interact with RESTful web services. Topics include thin client application architecture, object modeling, serialization, and a healthy dose of multithreaded asynchronous functional programming (sounds scary, but it's really not).

A former member

Presenter was, on the whole, knowledgeable. Could have used some polish in the presentation area (dry run, etc) but the discussion of uploading waypoints was valuable as was the Location Manager info but that is a quibble. Kudos for volunteering to do it.

FYI, regarding the Facebook app and why it's so slow - it seems to be a thin hybrid app that uses an HTML stack to do a lot of its UI in a UIWebView, which means it's subject to all of the limitations of iOS hybrid apps (which are worse on an Android).